Noun

(en noun)

The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction

The collection of academic papers published in the context of an academic conference

Progress or movement from one thing to another.

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A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction; as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious or a violent proceeding.

* (Macaulay)

The proceedings of the high commission.

Plural'', see ''proceedings .

Noun

(en noun)

Coming; coming to; approach; arrival.

* Young

Death's dreadful advent

* 1853 , , "Bartleby, the Scrivener," in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories'', New York: Penguin, 1968; reprinted 1995 as ''Bartleby , ISBN 0146000129, p. 3:

At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.

(religion, Christianity, always capitalized) See Advent.